The process of becoming a gem or bud; the transformation of material into a gemstone or the development of buds on a plant.
From Latin gemma (bud, gem) + -fication (a suffix from facere meaning 'to make'). This term combines the root for gems with the productive suffix used in words like calcification and ossification.
Gemmification captures something beautiful about how nature works—whether minerals slowly crystallize into gems or plant cells organize into buds, it's all the same fundamental process of transformation and organization.
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